How to Open Ports in a TP-Link TL-WR941HP v2 Router

Your TL-WR941HP v2 router helps to protect your network by blocking incoming internet connections. This is an important feature that helps you to control which applications have access to your network. Sometimes you want to allow network access to a specific application in order to play a game, connect a device, or use an app. The TP-Link TL-WR941HP v2 can unblock certain incoming connections through port forwarding or by opening a port. You can open ports in your TL-WR941HP v2 by assigning specific ports to an IP address. Forwarding these ports directs incoming data to a specific device or application.

To open ports in your TP-Link TL-WR941HP v2 router, follow the steps below:

1. On the computer or device that you are forwarding ports to, you will need to set up a static IP address.
2. Log in to your TP-Link TL-WR941HP v2 router.
3. Make your way to the Virtual Servers section of the TP-Link TL-WR941HP v2 router.
   • Find the Advanced tab located near the top of the screen and click it.
   • Click the NAT Forwarding tab, which is at the left of the screen.
   • Find the Virtual Servers tab at the left of the screen and click on it.
4. Go ahead and create a Virtual Servers entry.

If this sounds difficult, you are not alone. We will walk you through each step in opening a port for the TP-Link TL-WR941HP v2 router.

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Step 1

It is important to set up a static IP address in the device that you are forwarding a port to. This ensures that your ports will remain open even after your device reboots.

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• Or follow our Static IP Address guides to setup a static IP address.

After setting up a static ip address on your devices you need to login to your router.

Step 2

The TP-Link TL-WR941HP v2 router uses a web interface to display router settings. In order to login to the TP-Link TL-WR941HP v2 router you need to use a web browser.

Open your favorite web browser. If you don't have a favorite or are not sure what this means, open up Chrome, Firefox, or Edge. If you are already in a browser window, go ahead and open up a new tab.

We have simplified this step for you with this link: Login to your TL-WR941HP v2 Router

Find the address bar in your browser window. This is usually found at the top of the page, like in the image below.

Above is an example of what a web browser address bar looks like. Find the address bar in your web browser and type in your router's IP address.

The default IP address for the TP-Link TL-WR941HP v2 router is: 192.168.0.1

Once you have entered your router's IP address in the address bar go ahead and click the enter button on your keyboard. You should see a box like the one shown below.

Go ahead and enter the username and password for the TP-Link TL-WR941HP v2 router in the spaces available. Remember if you have changed them in the past, you need to enter those values.

• The default TP-Link TL-WR941HP v2 Router Username is: none
• The default TP-Link TL-WR941HP v2 Router Password is: created during initial setup

Enter your username and password, and then click the Login button to log in to your TP-Link TL-WR941HP v2 router.

TP-Link Username and Password Trouble

If the username and password that you typed in did not work, check out our Default TP-Link Router Passwords page for other ideas about possible passwords.

If, after trying the above list of passwords you still can't log in, you may need to reset your router. Learn how to do that by reading our How to Reset a Router guide. After resetting the TP-Link TL-WR941HP v2 router your username and password are reverted back to factory defaults. Router settings may also change when you reset, so make a note of your current router settings before you reset.

Step 3

You should be on your routers home page once you complete logging in. Find the Virtual Servers section on the home page of the TP-Link TL-WR941HP v2 router.

• Find the NAT Forwarding tab located near the left of the screen and click on it.
• Click the Virtual Servers tab, which is at the left of the screen.
• Find the Advanced tab at the top of the screen and click it.

You are now on the Virtual Servers page.

Step 4

Make sure that you must open a port in your router before doing so since this will allow data to come through the firewall portion of your router to a specific device. It is possible that this could lead to malicious traffic on your network. However, don't let this warning stop you from making this change if you need it because the risk is very low.

Here are the ports to forward for Xbox Live:

• TCP Ports: 3074
• UDP Ports: 3074

If you are looking for the ports for a different application you can find it by either:

• Browsing our List of Games
• Check out our our List of Games by Genre
• See our List of all Applications

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• Type in a name for this forward in the Service Type box. Choose a name that will help you remember why this forward was set up since it does not affect the functionality of the forward.
• You can enter either a single number or a range of numbers in the External Port box. If you are forwarding a single port number, you can enter it into the External Port box. To forward a range of ports, you can enter the lowest number of that range into the External Port box, followed by a hyphen, followed by the largest number. An example would look like this: 1000-2000.
• Take the same values that you entered into the External Port box, and enter them into the Internal Port box.
• Find the Internal IP box and enter the IP address that you want ports forwarded to. This can be either the IP address of your computer or any other IP address for devices on your network that you want to forward ports for.
• Choose All from the Protocol drop-down box.
• Choose Enabled from the Status drop-down box.
• Make sure to click the Save button at the left of the page to apply these changes, when you are completely finished.

Test If Your Ports Are Open

Finally, I strongly recommend testing to see if you forwarded the TP-Link TL-WR941HP v2 ports correctly. To do this you can use our Network Utilities tool, which includes a free Open Port Checker. Open Port Checker is the only online port checking tool that has Guaranteed Results.

More Guides To Check Out:

• We have software that does all of this and more called Network Utilities.
• Learn how to Setup your router.
• A full list of games and applications that require port forwarding. []